Record details

• ISBN: 9798887770819
• Physical Description: 61 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 30 cm
• Publisher: Lincoln, MA : Nosy Crow, 2025.
• Copyright: ©2022

Content descriptions

General Note:

"First published 2022 by Nosy Crow Ltd. in London"--Page opposite title page.

"The British Museum"

"This book is published by Nosy Crow in collaboration with the British Museum."--Page 4 of cover.

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introducing the dead -- Africa. Tutankhamun ; Ramses the Great ; Gebelein man ; Preserving the dead ; Life, death, afterlife ; Houses of the dead ; The Great Pyramid -- Americas. The Maiden of Llullaillaco ; The Chinchorro mummies ; Franklin's lost expedition -- Europe and the Middle East. Otzi the Ice Man ; The plaster citizens of Pompeii ; The Capuchin catacombs ; Bog bodies ; The Salt Men of Iran -- Asia. Beauty of Xiaohe ; Lady Xin Zhui ; The wet mummy ; Painted people of the Steppe ; The self-mummifying monks -- Secrets revealed, secrets kept -- Where they were found -- Glossary.

Target Audience Note:

Ages 9-12.

Grades 4-7.

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Subject:

Human remains (Archaeology) > Juvenile literature.
Dead > Juvenile literature.
Funeral rites and ceremonies > History > Juvenile literature.
Mummies > Juvenile literature.
Bog bodies > Juvenile literature.
Burial > Juvenile literature.

Genre:

Illustrated works.